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Rebecca Nicholson of Havre, 43, passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in a motor vehicle accident south of Big Sandy. Arrangements are pending with Holland & Bonine Funeral Home, www.hollandbonine.com ....
The Havre High girls basketball program has produced a lot of great players over the years, but one of the better ones in recent memory has got to be Naomi Terry. For the past few years, Terry has racked up achievements and awards, and during her impressive career, she has pretty much done it all. When she earns All-Conference honors this season, it will be for the third time and when she is named Class A All-State later this month, it will be the second. She has also been par...
The regional anti-drug agency based out of Havre, the Tri-Agency Safe Trails Task Force, has won a national award for a case that resulted in 11 indictments, most of them drug dealers on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. Task force project director Aaron Wittmer, and fellow task force agent C.J. Reichelt attended a banquet ceremony in Washington, D.C., last month to receive the Outstanding Enforcement Prevention Treatments Efforts on Tribal Land award, given out by the national...
Sharon Rowe of Helena, 61, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in a motor vehicle accident south of Big Sandy. Arrangements are pending with Holland & Bonine Funeral Home, www.hollandbonine.com ....
Press release Local residents have a chance to talk to their state lawmakers face-to-face this week. Bear Paw Development Corp. and the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce have partnered to sponsor a meeting with area legislators during this week’s transmittal break of the Montana Legislature. The meeting is scheduled for Thursday at 6 p.m. in Bear Paw Development’s Large Conference Room on the second floor of the Ryan Building, located at 48 Second Avenue in downtown Havre. “During this mid-session break from all the work in Hele...
MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke won Senate confirmation this morning as President Donald Trump's secretary of the interior, giving him responsibility for overseeing the nation's 400 million acres of public land, mostly in the West. The Republican-controlled Senate approved the nomination, 68-31 as 16 Democrats and one independent joined with 51 Republicans to support the choice. Several Democrats from Western states as well as those...
A series of House floor votes kept some lawmakers in Helena from attending Tuesday's legislative videoconference in the Hill County Electric Hospitality Room, although a senator home during transmittal break attended in person. Havre High School juniors with the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce's Leadership High School program attended the meeting, as did state Sen. Russ Tempel, R-Chester. Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Debbie Vandeberg said before the meeting that she w...
Two people were killed during a two-vehicle crash Tuesday on U.S. Highway 87 in Chouteau County. The names of the victims had not been released by print deadline this morning. The crash happened near mile marker 65, a representative with the Chouteau County Sheriff’s office said. Montana Highway Patrol reports that one of the vehicles was traveling southbound and another northbound when they collided head on. One of the vehicles was thrust off the road during the impact. “The drivers of both vehicles were killed on imp...
Several people who want to be the Democrats' nominee to replace Rep. Ryan Zinke pitched their candidacies to the Hill County Democrats during their monthly meeting in the Havre Eagles Club Tuesday The forum took place the night before Montana Republican U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke was confirmed as secretary of the interior. Under Montana law, a special election will be called 85 to 100 days after Zinke resigns from Congress to take up his new duties. Montana Democrats, Republicans...
Press release Grade school principals are asked to nominate a fourth- through sixth-grade teacher who has done an exemplary job teaching Montana history during the 2016-2017 school year. The winner will receive the 28th Montana Statehood Centennial Bell Award, which honors the Montana History Teacher of the year. To nominate a teacher, email Norma Ashby, award coordinator, at [email protected] and include the following information: your name, your email, nominee’s name, nominee’s email, grade level, school name, school add...
Press release Spring is around the corner, and that means Montana Seed Show time in Harlem, March 9-11. This event includes the Bread Show, which will be held Friday, March 10, with entry time 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. in the Harlem High School big gym. Categories for adult and youth are white bread, 100 percent whole wheat bread, machine white bread and machine 50 percent combination whole wheat bread. Prizes are awarded in each category. Adult first-place winners may not enter that category for three years, but are eligible to...
Editor: March has been recognized as Red Cross Month for more than 70 years. It is the time of year when Montana Red Cross recognizes our volunteers as true heroes. Here in Montana, Red Cross volunteers assist people during emergencies, teach lifesaving skills, donate blood, or give financial donations to help people in need. In fiscal year 2016, Montana Red Cross volunteers responded to 223 local emergencies, assisted 257 military families and trained 10,123 people in lifesaving skills. Montanans also donated 39,752 pints...
William H. "Bill" Baltrusch, 87, passed away at his residence Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017. Visitation will be held from noon to 1 p.m. and funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Friday, March 3, 2017, at the Havre Assembly of God Church with Pastor Bill Ballance and Pastor Curt Curtis officiating. Burial will follow in Highland Cemetery. Bill's family has suggested memorial donations be made to the Bill Baltrusch Memorial Fund at the Assembly of God Church of Havre, Rocky Boy or Lodge P...
Havre Police Department Officers made an arrest related to a sex offense Tuesday at 10:07 a.m. at the police station. —— Officers investigated a motor vehicle crash near Fourth Street after a caller reported Tuesday at 11:17 a.m. that two large trucks were involved in a hit and run crash. —— Officers made an arrest during a transport Tuesday at 12:11 p.m. No further information was provided. —— Officers assisted a citizen after a Boulevard Avenue caller reported Tuesday at 5:52 p.m. there was a strange smell at his mother...
Press release The Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center is seeking nominations for the 2017 Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame induction round. Every year, the organization honors living and historical figures which have made notable contributions to Montana’s western heritage. “People from across Montana are invited to identify those in their communities who are most deserving of inclusion in the hall of fame” said Mark Larson, hall of fame board director. “Nominations are open and welcome from the public at large...
It always amazes me. How can a person bowl like a 239 game and the very next game is a 100? You do everything the same, so you would think anyway, but apparently something’s just not quite right. It happens to the best of us. High women’s game for the week was Donna Tilleman with a 211. Julie Rodgers had the high series with a 583. Andy Owens and Ron Turner tied for the high men’s game, each with a 254. Ryan Mapes had the high series with a 684. Sunday Keglers: Jeania Stiles 181, 166-479, Donna Tilleman 186-475, Dawn Crowder...
The Montana State University-Northern women’s basketball team heads into the postseason as the No. 12 team in the NAIA. The final regular season Coaches Poll was released Tuesday afternoon. With a four-game winning streak, the Skylights moved up three spots from the last poll and are one of three Frontier Conference teams ranked. Lewis-Clark State moved from No. 4 to No. 2 in the new poll, while UM-Western stayed at No. 20. No other Frontier teams received votes. In the f...
Talk about your all-time rematches. Just this past Saturday, the Montana State University-Northern Lights endured a rough, senior-night loss to the Rocky Mountain College Battlin’ Bears. Just three days have passed and they’re at it again. Tonight, the Lights (20-10) and Bears (16-14) meet inside the Armory Gymnasium in the opening round of the 2017 Frontier Conference Playoffs. At stake: The entire season. The winner of tonight’s game, which tips at 7, will move on to the Fro...
While much of the focus statewide when it comes to high school basketball will be on the four state tournaments that will take place this weekend, there is still some divisional basketball to be played. And when it comes to divisional basketball in Class B, there are few tournaments more exciting than the Northern B. The girls Northern B took place last weekend, but starting Thursday in Cut Bank, the boys will have their tournament, with three berths in next weekend’s Class B...
Wednesday College Basketball Lights vs RMC, 7 p.m. Thursday High School Basketball Havre vs Butte Central, 2:30 p.m. At State A in Butte Rocky Boy vs Harlem, 1 p.m. At Northern B in Cut Bank Friday High School Basketball Havre at State A in Butte Rocky Boy/Harlem at Northern B in Cut Bank College Basketball Skylights vs UM-W, 7 p.m. College Wrestling Lights at NAIA national tournament In Topeka, Kansas Hockey State B Hockey Tournament In Havre Saturday High School Basketball...
At its 2017 annual meeting Feb. 1 the Hill County Scale Association board members discussed maintenance at the facility and the need to start a search for a scale manager. The holding pens at the scale association three miles east of Havre received a full face lift this year after board members made a deal with one of a handful of businesses in town last summer offering to replace weathered boards in corrals and windbreaks for free. The weathered boards are sold as recycled...
Big Sandy gunsmith, knife maker, rancher and engraver Aaron "Duke" Pursley has been inducted into the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame. Pursley was inducted last year and attended the honorary ceremony Feb. 4 in Great Falls. "It was pretty nice," he said. "I thought it was pretty good honor to be recognized." The nominating process is open to and depends on the public. "In order to identify those in Montana's communities who are most deserving of inclusion in the Hall of Fame, we...
A one-time Havre cowboy, Gordon "Buck" Boyce, who had rodeod all over the country and won the 1950 World Series Rodeo in Madison Square Garden, has been posthumously inducted in the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame. Boyce was inducted in 2016 after being nominated by younger brother Robert "Bud" Boyce. "I'm really happy to see him get it," Bud Boyce said. The nominating process is open to and depends on the public. "In order to identify those in Montana's communities who are most...
